You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
BASHAR AL-ASSADAnyone who’s not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you’re advancing ?
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We would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can’t be tolerated in Syria. I’m talking about the normal reaction of the people.
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That’s all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].
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The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
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We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.
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Trust that the thing in life that excites you the most comes complete with all the tools necessary to support you in the doing of that thing. It is automatic; it is built in. All you need to do is act on the opportunities that doing that situation brings to you.
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In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from the blood [of chemical weapons].
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When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria.
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We don’t discuss this issue [ chemical weapons ] in public because we never said that we have it, and we never said that we don’t have it. It’s a Syrian issue ; it’s a military issue we never discuss in public with anyone.
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Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army – or outside the government and army.
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Circumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
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There’s a video about one of those women who they consider as rebel or fighter who worked with those terrorists and she said “they didn’t tell us how to use the chemical weapons” and one of those weapons exploded in one of the tunnels and killed twelve. That’s what she said.
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Iran doesn’t have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?
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But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We’ll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It’s not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.
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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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